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Viewing cable 08HOCHIMINHCITY700, EDITOR SACKED FOR PUBLICLY CRITICIZING ARRESTS OF

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08HOCHIMINHCITY700 2008-08-01 07:29 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO0940
PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHNH
DE RUEHHM #0700 2140729
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 010729Z AUG 08
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4721
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 3180
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 4949
UNCLAS HO CHI MINH CITY 000700 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS AND DRL/AWH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM
SUBJECT: EDITOR SACKED FOR PUBLICLY CRITICIZING ARRESTS OF 
ANTI-CORRUPTION REPORTERS 
 
REF: A) HANOI 563  B) HANOI 865  C) 07 HCMC 1136 
 
(SBU) Summary:  On July 30, a senior editor from Tuoi Tre 
(Youth) newspaper was sacked and banned from working in the 
media in retaliation for his editorial in support of the 
journalists arrested in connection with their reporting on the 
so-called "PMU-18 scandal."  This reprisal comes as the latest 
development in the Government of Vietnam's crackdown on 
journalists for reporting this important corruption case. End 
Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) On July 30, the HCMC Communist Youth Union leadership 
board (which administers the Tuoi Tre newspaper) authorized 
disciplinary action against Bui Thanh, senior editor of Tuoi Tre 
(Youth) newspaper.  Thanh said that he was informed that he 
would be removed from his position, banned from ever working in 
the media, and his press card would be revoked. 
 
JUSTICE AND JOURNALISTS BOTH AFFRONTED 
-------------------------------------- 
3. (SBU) Thanh said the official reason for his dismissal was 
the "serious consequences" to public opinion that his May 13 
editorial caused.  The editorial, published in Tuoi Tre the day 
after two reporters were arrested in connection with their 
stories on a massive corruption scandal within the Ministry of 
Transportation's Project Management Unit Number 18 (PMU-18), 
stated that the arrested reporters had been "protect[ing] this 
beautiful life from the rotting worms," and that their arrests 
had "enraged" the media.  The editorial disparaged the GVN's 
handling of the PMU-18 case as an "insult to justice" in which 
newspapers were the "victims." 
 
4. (SBU) Media contacts noted that Thanh, together with Huynh 
Son Phuoc -- the paper's former deputy chief editor who was 
sacked two weeks ago (ref B) -- had formed a reformist core at 
Tuoi Tre, the newspaper that has been at the forefront of 
pushing the envelope on censorship in Vietnam (ref C).  The 
editors' removals have come as serious blows to media morale, 
with journalists at Tuoi Tre privately expressing their anger 
and frustration over the arrests to us and intimating that the 
crackdown is leading some to consider changing careers.  One 
reporter intoned, "the history of Tuoi Tre ends here." 
 
PMU 18 FALL-OUT NOT OVER 
------------------------ 
5. (SBU) Media sources have suggested that the investigation is 
ongoing.  According to a senior journalist from Tuoi Tre, police 
will continue to hold "working sessions" with the editorial 
board for the next week.  During the past week, well-connected 
contacts inside the National Assembly and the Ministry of Public 
Security either reverted to the Party line -- which blames the 
journalists for abusing media power -- or chose to ignore our 
inquiries when asked to discuss the reporters' arrests. 
 
COMMENT: A DEMORALIZED PRESS 
---------------------------- 
6. (SBU) Coming in the wake of the sacking of two editors last 
fall (ref C) and the firing of another last week (ref B), this 
reprisal against Mr. Thanh represents yet another blow against 
the pioneering Tuoi Tre newspaper.  The particularly harsh 
retributions meted out against Thanh may well be intended to 
break the spirit at the publication that has continued to push 
the envelope on what can be published in Vietnam despite being 
sanctioned numerous times previously (reftels).  The severity of 
the punishment has demoralized the entire HCMC journalist 
community, and even open-minded political insiders have begun to 
refuse to discuss the arrests with us.  It is too soon to say if 
this latest reprisal represents a fundamental reversal of the 
welcome shift in the gradual movement toward a more open press 
environment described in ref C or if the sackings of Thanh and 
his colleagues at Tuoi Tre are intended to demonstrate that news 
outlets cannot move beyond the strict limits on reporting 
described in ref C: no reporting on corruption among top party 
leadership (or their relatives and core supporters) and no 
criticism of GVN/CPV political policies or actions (such as 
Thanh's gutsy editorial criticizing the arrest of the PMU-18 
reporters).  End comment. 
 
7. (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy-Hanoi. 
 
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